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Your channel seems attract a lot of idiotic anti-HS2 crap from people who know nothing about the project... anyway nice vid i learned a lot.

Great video.

Great contexts and clearly good research - you’ve got talent but I would still work on post production - remember the eyes don’t see all details if we move too fast and need time to adjust when you want to speed up the clip

James, I am all for building HS2 and it should have been taken all the way up to Leeds and Manchester, and beyond if possible, however my issue is with the civil engineering and the fact that whilst HS2 Ltd claim they will revert all the land they have used for construction back to its original state we know in reality that no builder ever cleans up their mess when they leave a site, they will just cover over all their waste material and builders yards with a few mm of topsoil and call it restored. Its the same with all the other sites along the route, all these ponds they have created will just become stagnant pools when they go. There is little to no chance they will lift all the Tarmac they have laid in their builders yards and work compounds they will simply bury them under the material they have excavated from the tunnels. This is why so many people are complaining about the destruction they have caused. I am sure the railway will be a fantastic piece of engineering but its the things that will be hidden that will be the long time scar to the environment. I am not a tree hugger and I am a mechanical engineer so this is a view from the technical perspective.

This could be an interesting video but I'm afraid it made me dizzy byconstantly circling around. It covers an interesting area with the tunnel exits and their associated structures, the crossing of a canal and a now complete underbridge. It shows a lot but the constant circling spoils it.

I always think when people talk about the "damage" to the countryside that a) you can never bake a cake without making a mess and b) how we have to pander to those who don't want it in their back yard. Take a look at Karl Vaughans latest video where you see the cutting taking shape and how you wont see the railway because of the cutting. All this so called damage that people talk about will be put right after they have moved off site and returned the countryside back to nature. Also, if we hadn't had to pander, this would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to build, but instead the spiralling costs mean, as always, us northerners get short changed again as the most important part of the build has been cancelled.

Look at the country side getting done over for what. To get some place 15 min quicker. Bet lots of nice houses got knocked down for this rubbish to get built 😮

I don't think ive ever watched an interview before where the format is: ask a question, get a "dont know", then the interviewer goes on to give his opinion as a factual answer to "inform" the interviewee before then asking her views on this "fact". Absolutely awful biased footage.

Looking at this, I’ll forget high speed in the U.K. we are a small country,a 125 would have bone just as well.

12 cubic meters of the chikterns AONB with every scoop. Nice. Firstly why the heck didn't this line go out of the North of London where the natural route is. Secondly, rather than digging 8 million tons of Chiltern Area of outstanding natural beauty, why wasn't this tunneled for another 2 miles to protect the chiktern hills. There is no way tunneling would have been more expensive than the destruction of the countryside that is currently happening. Also the bit about the "meticulous" environmental management and the attention to "detail" is rubbish. This morning after rhe heavy rain and no grass to soakaway the water. It ran off the land at an incredible rate and flushed that same bright orange clay earth down all than lanes and caused a disaster to the A413 blow which flooded so badly it almost came to a standstill. Orange water was blasting down the asks of the lanes today like niagra falls as the rain simply washes straight off the surface and doesn't soak away. Rocks the size of footballs were all over the lanes leading down to the A413, that came from the HS2 site. It's an environmental disaster in every way. Work should be forcibly stopped until they spend a year putting in a proper water management solution to correct the ruination to the natural water flow that they have caused.

Enormous extra expense ( of the order of £3 - 4 Billion I would surmise ) has been added to this HS2 project digging 16 miles of tunnels under the Chilterns. 99% of the locals have not been effected in any significant way ( the odd road diversion for a period perhaps !) A few ventilation structures on the surface have been necessary, that look no worse, than a farmers hayshed. Even these have been folded into the landscape and will be hidden by trees in time. These works are now coming to completion and I cannot see where the 'environmental damage' has arisen.

I would be very surprised if any farmers or other land owners have had property expropriated by HS2 without compensation.

"it costs money! >:I" Sometimes I forgot theres a dedicated voterbase who just vote for as little infrastructure investment as possible. Also "we are smaller than France, it wont work for us", we are almost identical to France in Population/Size/Economy/climate its any excuse with these lot.

As a local I was against it initially but can now see the potential (and doesn’t the Colne Valley viaduct look GREAT). Surely the question we should all be asking is how France, Italy, Spain (and I assume Germany) can build high-speed rail at a fraction of the cost (and don’t give me that compensation baloney)?

Japan do it much faster.. ruclips.net/user/results?search_query=%E5%8C%97%E6%B5%B7%E9%81%93%E6%96%B0%E5%B9%B9%E7%B7%9A%E5%BB%BA%E8%A8%AD&sp=EgIIBA%253D%253D

I was employed on the Taiwan High Speed Rail project in 2000-2005 as Senior Inspector of Work on a 16 km section that had 11 tunnels, 10 bridge and a large section of viaduct and raised station. The ROW remained with a viaduct after the flood plain to bring the line into more stable ground in the foot hills. The tunnels were excavated using the NATM system of excavating short sections of top heading, installing roof bolts, mesh and applying a sprayed concrete lining in layers. Continuing down with the mid section and invert to form a ring structure. The viaduct section was built on spread footings, extra width piers capped with Earthquake suppression pads. The deck spans were either DSM, ASM or falsework cast insitu station tracks and platforms. One river bridge was erected using steel frame units, the others were cast insitu stressed beams and decks. The viaducts provided free movement for farmers, rather than an embankment. The contract was awarded to THSR on a design, build equip and run basis. The partners in THSR included Eva Air and Fubon bank, expat employees were given access to free flights and banking from these two companies.

Great video. I like the background and timeline you have described. It’s sad you have to put up with the drivel from those who can’t appreciate this engineering masterpiece.

Nothing but a monstrous blot on the landscape & a complete & utter waste of billions of pounds. HS2 is an environmental disaster of epic proportions & Britain's biggest infrastructure mistake in half a century.

I live closby. The mess and chaos HS2 has caused and for what? To drop the time from London to Birmingham? This has cost billions, no one will benefit apart from the consultant's, land agents and construction companies etc. Monumental waste of money that would be better allocated to building new hospitals,

Joe90. Why do anything? You'd have us in mud huts and dressed in bear skins. After all, we soon won't need heating with the world heating up! We won't need heat pumps either. Thank god at 20K a throw.

That's a 70 tonner machine not 90 tons

Hi could you do a video on hs2 at A43 and A422 near Brackley! Some massive excavations happening there am on 95tonner digger

Amazing videos. Cool to see how little disruption there is to the hills and greenary beneath the tunnel sections. Thank you.

Sorry James , the chiltern tunnels both broke through 5 months ago! See the official videos

Great video. Im glad he mentioned using Bramleys at the end, people claim they have no place in cider but they can be good for providing acid!

Nice to see someone showing the Chiltern Tunnel Shafts. The eastern portal and beyond is very well covered so I think it would be good to do more videos around Wendover

Nicely shot but Florence and Cecilia reached Little Missenden Shaft in Aug 2023 not 2024. Florence reached the west portal in Feb 2024 and Cecilia in March. If you go there you might of of them still being disassembled. If you'd like I can help you find filming locations that aren't as well covered or not covered at all by any other youtubers in your area.

The tunnelling here is complete now, isn't it?

'Serious issues', a few small sinkholes !. Me thinks not. Local politicos have to be seen to be onto it, but its a storm in a Teacup.

I was just going to comment that I could listen to Stephen all day long, I see someone beat me to it. I bought a kingston black tree when I thought I might like cider, is one of my favourite fresh apples to eat but unfortunately doesn't keep well.

Thanks for uploading this - a pleasure to listen to such wisdom and knowledge from the Apple Guru Stephen Hayes, and some wonderful shots of his orchard too. Presumably this was filmed last Autumn as the apple trees seem to be full of ripe fruit?

Brilliant to see an update from Stephen's orchard - it has been a while since he posted so a relief to see that it continues to flourish and the great man is as passionate about his trees as ever!

The british public is addicted to sugar- the pubs want 3.8% to 4% sweet cheap drink.....

Love it, thanks for coming along James! Looking forward to seeing your amazing photos turn into posters for next year's Lighthouse

Great Video, Love that drones are allowing us to see so much more these days. ❤❤✌✌☮☮

Excellent!

A lot comes from Eastern Europe in tankers as juice and is fermented in the UK. Who knows what conditions it's produced in.

Yes, it is very much worth it. Or would you prefer to have the lush green landscape lost to rising sea levels due to CO2 from continued use of short-haul flights and ever increasing use of cars and lorries? We need modal shift, and this only comes with investment in alternatives. People like to comment on scars on the landscape when in fact they are commenting on an active building site. Reserve such commentary for when it is completed, and then compare to a 6 lane motorway and you will find it is by far the least impact compared to the alternatives

Great video! Like dropping in on a stream of consciousness from Stephen once more ☺️

I could listen to Stephen all day. It’s great to see him back on RUclips. 👍

Always great to hear Stephen talk!

I'm from Poland :) and I have a similar old apple orchard and I make natural ciders. Cheers.

Great video.

Great views - watched from the Drone Show live on YT - well worth a watch!

Awesome video. Just subscribed from Drone Show Live.

Lovely building, great flying. Another one for my bucket list. Love the music you added. Great video and new subscriber.

beautiful building and well flown. new subscriber for you

Very nice indeed.

Absolutely stunning building! Watched this on the drone show live! Amazing flight and music to match! Outstanding! Liked and subbed you too 🙂👏👌